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20-Pound Delta Jet Part Falls On Long Island Lawn

Source: CBS

This time of year, it's leaves in the yard -- not breakaway plane parts. But one Long Island homeowner found something too big to rake up. An engine tail cone popped off a Delta jet and plummeted to the ground below. That falling chunk of metal caused quite a scared. A huge piece of an airplane broke off in mid-air and plummeted from the sky, landing in a Nassau County family's front yard.

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